Thursday, March 8, 2007

The conquests of my silly little movie...

I honestly didn't think I could do this pkittle. Make a movie? are you kidding me?? Once I got the hang of Pinnacle, it was really user friendly, which was nice. My intro was strong and I felt like I knew where I was going with my movie. When I sat down to work on the rest of my movie I found myself stuck. I wanted to relate the benefits of yoga to the life of a college student. I have been soo stressed and it feels like I can never catch up. When I started doing yoga this semester I honestly felt a difference in my over all health. I believe in the benefits of yoga and I wanted to make that clear in my movie. Basically I had aspects 4 of learning that I wanted to address: WHAT I'm learning, WHY I'm learning, HOW I'm learning, and if it works. Easier said than done my friend. My biggest challenge was not having access to my videos. Videos take up a lot of time and since I didn't have any in my movie it was just not long enough. I used nothing but images and pictures to get across what I was trying to say. Sometimes the right images were .gif and I couldn't use them because I needed .jpeg so I had to search through more just to find the right image in a .jpeg. how frustrating right? I really wanted to show that yoga is not only beneficial for the stretching of the body and muscles but more importantly, the mind. I tried to include James Gee in my movie by talking a little bit about his affinity group principle. Becoming part of the affinity group for yoga was a huge part of my learning experience. The reason I didn't explain Gee more is because YOU are my audience pkittle and I figured you already knew about Gee. This movie was an interesting learning experience in itself. I really didn't think I could do it and I honestly think if I would have had more time to learn more about yoga and more time to make this movie it would have been really really cool, but I felt a little rushed. I hope you take this blog into consideration while watching my silly little movie. Try to give us some slack. : )

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